Importance Of Experimental Psychology

Introduction to Experimental Psychology Experimental psychology can be defined as the implementation of laboratory techniques that are used to investigate subjects about mind and behavior, such as memory, critical thinking, learning, and many more. Experimental psychologist will tend to focus on just one experiment at a time. Some of these experimental psychologists spend their whole lives on just one complex experiment. These experiments include all branches of psychology from behavioral, cognitive, educational, clinical, and many more. Without experimental psychology, we might not even still have psychology as a science today. Experimental psychology has impacted the progression made in this field of science and has given us so much information and helped us with many aspects of psychology such as diagnosing, pharmacological treatments and cognitive-behavior treatments.

Experimental psychology was first introduced in 1879. A German physicist named Gustav Fechner wrote Elements of Psychophysics which brought forward the first experimental evidence. This was the very beginning of experimental psychology. It was Gustav Fechner and Ernst Weber who experimented with how sensation is transformed into perception. Experimental psychology came out of the debate of objective or subjective views, or in other words sensation or perception. There are other people who contributed to the rise of experimental psychology such as Johannes Muller,

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